Steve Townsend
Lead Cloud Engineer at Digitas UK
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSteve Townsend is a Lead Cloud Engineer based in London with nine years of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale, highly available cloud platforms across Azure and AWS. He champions an "automation-first" approach, building and maintaining infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible while also applying CloudFormation, Chef and traditional networking expertise when needed. Steve progressed from desktop and datacentre engineering to technical leadership, owning complex migrations, zero-downtime upgrades and hybrid network architectures involving Cisco, Juniper and BGP peering. AWS SysOps certified and studying CCNA, he blends deep networking skills with cloud-native services to simplify and replace legacy solutions. Known for being approachable and team-focused, he also acts as an escalation point and mentor, influencing platform design and operational excellence.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Albany Secondary SchoolAlbany School
English
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Github Skills (21)
openvr9
oculus-quest8
oculus8
jcifs8
kotlin-android7
rendering7
mvi-architecture7
android-library7
fatalerror6
okhttp6
android-architecture6
androidx6
android6
kotlin6
virtual-reality6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SteveGreatApe/BufferedMediaDataSource
Aug 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
SteveGreatApe/MVICore
May 2021 - May 2022
MVI framework with events, time-travel, and more
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year
eventstravelmvvmandroidtime-travel
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